Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

The critical element of covert propaganda is the concealment of the agency's role in sponsoring the materials. Related Government Accountability Office Opinion on Covert Propraganda
In 2005 the Government Accountability Office found that the ONDCP had violated domestic propaganda and publicity prohibitions by preparing prepackaged news stories that did not disclose to television viewers that the government had produced them and had illegally spent appropriations to develop produce and distribute the covert propaganda. One example was with Warner Brothers' show Smart Guy.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the United States Military Academy where he was the Bradley Professor of International Security Studies from 2001 to 2005. He is also an NBC and MSNBC military analyst as well as president of his own consulting firm BR McCaffrey Associates.